A high school teaching sociology in the period of the reform of vocational education

• Main Author: Jarić Isidora
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2012-01-01
• Series: Sociološki Pregled
• Subjects: sociology textbooks; secondary education; vocational education reform; Serbia
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2012/0085-63201202215J.pdf

The paper represents an attempt of reconstruction of certain historical period and the conceptualization of high school sociology education within it, through discussion of broader social and sub-professional (sociological) circumstances within Serbian society and SFR Yugoslavia. Special attention in the paper is devoted to the analysis of two high school textbooks in sociology (textbook of Radošin Rajović from 1981. and textbook Popović, Ranković, Milić and Bolčić from 1981.) used in this historical period in secondary education on the territory of Serbia. The paper tries to map the social and professional (as well as the ideological) differences and conflicts within society (Yugoslav and Serbian) and the sociological professional community that strongly influenced on one side the content of textbooks, and on the other side the limits of interpretation of certain themes within them, and consequently on the structure and content of textbooks in sociology that were used in secondary education in this period.